4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days Opens This Week!

The winner of the top prize at last year's Cannes film festival, the great "4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days" is opening this week. I saw the film at the New York Film Festival last year, and there have actually been quite a few opportunities for people to see it before its release this week. Some sites tell me it is coming out Wednesday the 23rd, but I believe its opening on Friday the 25th. It is certainly going to play at IFC Center, and it will most likely play at the Lincoln Plaza Cinemas. It can also be found on IFC On Demand for a certain fee at some point this week.

The film is about two young girls living in Romania before the fall of Communism. One of the girls is pregnant and needs an abortion, and we follow the two friends over the course of a day while they decide how to approach this deed. This film was number five on my Top 10 movies of 2007 list- it played for a week in LA, and it can be found in certain locations in Toronto. The film is simply unforgettable, and its a shame that it won't get a nomination for Best Foreign Film (Romania) at the Oscars this year. For some bizarre reason it did not make the shortlisted nominees, and once again none of the five that will be nominated we haven't had a chance to see- with the exception of "Beaufort" which is out now that I am missing, and "The Counterfeiters," which will probably win, opening Feb. 22nd.

This is also a great example of the film making revolution going on in Romania at the moment, with them delivering such masterful products like "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu," and "12:08 East of Bucharest" over the last year, and "California Dreamin'," which hopefully will get some kind of release next year.